Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Pulling off a core shift takes many years, if not a decade, as PPG and other companies have shown. Allow time and persevere. A core shift takes time for several reasons.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. For Beane and the A's it came from the scouts, the media, and even the team's on-the-field manager.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. This is not fair to my client, to the company or to me. However, at lower levels in the organization (that are more price sensitive), traditional 360?

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In a typical big data project, a manager engages an internal or external team to collect and process data, hoping to extract insights related to a particular business problem. Insight Center.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain Tools Article 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

.” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. Their only purpose is to give manipulative boosts to GM’s stock price. GM did $20.4

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

In today’s dynamic business environment, leaders of large established companies need more than ever to run and reinvent the business at the same time. ” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. Our research shows that U.S. points p.a.,

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? HBR Staff/YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". To many, the obvious candidate for measuring corporate performance is share price.

Short-term 13

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. companies over the period from 1993 to 2011, asking the following question: Is there systematic evidence that overconfident CEOs are indeed better leaders? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

Stephenson 10

Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

There is, however, a big barrier standing in the way of the movement's triumph, Nocera writes: Measuring chief executives on the basis of their companies' stock prices is easy to understand — that was always part of its appeal. Over shorter periods, though, stock price movements usually convey more noise than signal.

Short-term 12

Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

About 7 percent of the population wore eyeglasses in 2002, while whopping 65 percent of those in need did not have them. As one of the world's largest lens manufacturers, with 30 percent global share of the lens industry, the company had special reason to consider the enormity of India's eyesight problems.

Constraint 15

Constraint Marketing Travel Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Only a small percentage of companies will gain competitive advantage from SMACIT technologies. These investments included Nordstrom.com and a perpetual inventory system that allowed Nordstrom to offer a consistent multi-channel experience by 2002. What successful companies are doing right. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

To get some empirically derived answers, we studied leaders of companies that grew to become great in highly uncertain, even chaotic, industries. Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). This time, however, they were in for a surprise.

Health Care 13

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 13

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2017

Ray Bell was the manager of my hometown bank most of my childhood. He got a job as the credit manager in his brother-in-law’s small farm implement company in a nearby town. But it had nothing to do with the price of the slice; it was about a customer-suggested idea for how to fund pizza for the homeless.

Banking 150

Banking Bottom-up Charisma Open-book 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. So, if the company misses its quarterly earnings target, they sell their shares. Some companies take matters into their own hands.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A brand’s difference gives consumers an easy rationale for choosing it, and a ready justification for paying a price premium. Research by Millward Brown finds that brands with a meaningful difference command a price premium 13 percent higher than weaker category alternatives. The company spends virtually nothing on advertising.

Apparel 8

Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Let's take another example: AT&T's acquisition of cable companies TCI, MediaOne and Cablevision (Boston only) for approximately $130 billion in 1999-2000 and its subsequent sale of the resultant AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $44 billion in 2002. My objective is to clarify a fundamental logical fallacy, so I will forge onward.

Strategy 14

Strategy Construction Motivation Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. But it''s far from clear that professional money managers have what it takes to play the role of effective watchdog.

Hedge 8

Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Yet when I perform in public, the feedback is, shall we say, more varied (especially when it's fueled by half-price bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon). You might think that companies spending millions of advertising dollars each year would seek a similar process for honing their messages. Everything seems hilarious and insightful.

Advertising 12

Advertising How To Media Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. In its simplest from, an "option" is the right to buy or sell something at a certain price within a certain period of time. There's a solution.

Innovation 8

Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

The argument for the legislation is that the number of companies going public has fallen dramatically over the past decade, and the cost of complying with disclosure rules, especially those imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, is part of the problem. Yet I doubt it does much of anything to protect the most gullible investors.

IPO 10

IPO Conflict of Interest Information Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

For so long, it was a price he had never had to pay," writes Carlson. Andy O''Connell The Highest Stakes Lead or Die Fast Company Lt. Phil Treglia wasn''t your typical management adviser. Crisis management' Armstrong told his board he could make Patch profitable within a year, but it didn’t happen. military withdrawal.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. If you invest in human capital, whether in your company or in your country, sooner or later it will pay off if you have the right set of incentives. company investment?

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 billion rand in 2017 (about $260 million), while the company’s share price appreciated by a whopping 61,800% (from 117 to 72,500 rand). It serves individuals only, not companies or trusts. Put differently, a company needs focus.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Apple and Google, two of the world’s most valuable companies, have had their share of platform failures as we’ll show. Studying these successes and failures, we’ve identified half a dozen key reasons platforms fail, all of which boil down to managers’ misunderstanding of how platforms operate and compete.

Participative 8

Participative Software Market Penetration Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Should we lower our prices?” This describes lots of modern digital enterprises — think Google and Airbnb — as well as most traditional media companies, and has been discussed a lot already in this week’s coverage. Should we increase production?”.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

Blog 385

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Company flags fly next to Pride flags. And, in the interests of full disclosure, we also thought: Could we find an opportunity to build a fund of high-performing companies with progressive LGBT policies in which the public could invest?). The CEI scores Fortune 500 companies and the 200 largest U.S.

Policies 15

Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Company flags fly next to Pride flags. And, in the interests of full disclosure, we also thought: Could we find an opportunity to build a fund of high-performing companies with progressive LGBT policies in which the public could invest?). The CEI scores Fortune 500 companies and the 200 largest U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

a year, on average, between 2002 and 2007, with foreign investments touching a record $10 billion in 2008. Local leaders managed this by enhancing value — not reducing it. In a slow-growing economy, the key to maximizing revenues and boosting per capita incomes isn't increasing volumes by cutting prices but hiking prices.

GDP 14

GDP Price Incentives Globalization 14